The Innocent Eye Test
Mark Tansey, 1981
Metropolitian Museum of Art, NY
The Innocent Eye Test
Mark Tansey, 1981
Metropolitian Museum of Art, NY
Books, Catalogs, Films, CD-ROMS and Monographs
1980 Editor, The Human Condition. Catalog of the Conference on Visual Anthropology, Temple University, Philadephia.
1982 Editor, A Crack in the Mirror: Reflexive Perspectives in Anthropology. Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania Press.
1983 Editor, Robert J. Flaherty, A Biography. Written by Paul Rotha. Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania Press.
1985 Editor, Images of the U.S.A. 1920 - 1940: Three European Photographers: Emil O. Hoppe, Harald Lechenperg, Bernd Lohse. Exhibition Catalog, University of Pennsylvania, Phila.
1986 Editor, Reflections on Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania Landscape Photography.Exhibit catalog, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.
1987 Editor, with Martin Taureg. Visual Explorations of the World: Selected Proceedings of the International Visual Communication Conference. Rader Verlag, Gottingen.
1988a Editor with Larry Gross and John Katz. Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film and Television. New York: Oxford University Press.
1988b Fragments of a Dream: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Photographs. Exhibit Catalog.Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania.
1992a Editor, The Cinema of Jean Rouch. New York: Gordon and Breech.
1992b Editor, The Films of John Marshall. New York: Gordon & Breech.
1995 Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America. Cambridge: MIT Press.
1999a The Photographic World of Francis Cooper: Not a Bad Shot. University Park: Penn State Press. Francis Cooper Photographs and Essay
1999b compiled with Linda A. Ries. Directory of Pennsylvania Photographers, 1839-1900 . Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Museum and Historical Commission.
2000 Picturing Culture: Explorations of Anthropology and Film. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. . (To be translated into Vietnamese by The Viet Nam Institute of Culture & Art Studies, in 2001)
2002 Co-Editor with Harald Prins. The Origins of Visual Anthropology. Special Issue of Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 17, no. 2.
2003 Editor with Larry Gross and John Katz. Image Ethics in the Digital World.. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
2005a The Taylor Family: An Oak Park Story . CDROM. Watertown: DER.
2005b Rebekah and Sophie: A Lesbian Family: An Oak Park Story . CDROM. Watertown: DER.
2006a Dear Old Oak Parkers : : An Oak Park Story . CDROM. Watertown: DER.
2006b Oak Park Regional Housing Center: : An Oak Park Story . CDROM. Watertown: DER.
2010 With Milton Machuca. A Country Auction Study Film – Reflexive Musings.
2011 Co-Edited with Marcus Banks. Made To Be Seen: Historical Perspectives on Visual Anthropology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Articles, Book Chapters, etc.
1969 Visual Anthropology. Journal, University Film Association XXI[3]:68-71.
1970a Anthropological Film: Prospects and Promises. Rural Africana, No. 12:13-17.
1970b A Bibliography of Film and Anthropology. Rural Africana, No. 12:18-28.
1970c With Carroll Williams and Tim Asch. Notes on Anthropological Film.Rural Africana, No. 12:29-41.
1971 Towards an Anthropological Cinema. Film Comment, 7[1]:35-40.
1974 With R. Chalfen. The Teaching of Visual Anthropology at Temple. SAVICOM Newsletter 5.
1976b Anthropology and Film: The Social Science Implications of Regarding Film as Communication.Quarterly Review of Film Studies, Vol. 1, No. 4:436-445.
1977 The Image Mirrored: Reflexivity and the Documentary Film. Journal, University Film Association, XXIX[4]:3-13. [Reprinted in 1988 in New Challenges To Documentary, Alan Rosenthal,Editor. Berkeley: University of California Press.]
1979a The Aggie Will Come First: The Demystification of Robert Flaherty. In Robert J. Flaherty - Photographer/Filmmaker. Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, editor. Vancouver Art Gallery,pgs. 67-74, 94-96.
1979b Philosophical Toys - A Theory of Anthropology and Film. Proceedings of the International Visual Literacy Association Meetings, Rochester.
1980a Show and Tell: Scholars and Film, Humanities Review, 1[2]:14-15.
1980b Exposing Yourself: Reflexivity, Anthropology and Film. Semiotica, 3[1-2]:153-179. [Translated into Spanish in 1996 as Revelarse a sí mismo: reflexividad, antropología y cine. In Imagen y Cultura: Perspectivas del Cine Ethografico, Elisenda Ardévol y Luis Pérex Tolon, eds. Granada: Diputacion de Granda, pg.s 161-202.]
1980c Introduction: A Re-evaluation of Robert J. Flaherty, Photographer and Filmmaker. Studies in Visual Communication, Vol. 6, No. 2:3-5.
1980d Franz Boas and Early Camera Study of Behavior. Kinesis Reports 3[1]:6 11.
1981a Introduction. Photographs of the Piegan by Roland Reed. Studies in Visual Communication, 7[1]:48-63.
1981c Seeing Through Pictures: The Anthropology of Photography. Camera Lucida, 3:20-33.
1981e Beyond Realism/Formalism: Toward a New Role for Film in Anthropology.Journal of VisualVerbal Languaging, 1[1]:49-60.
1982c Visual Ethnography. In The Last and the First Eskimos: A catalog of Alex Harris' Photographs. International Center for Photography, N.Y.
1982d An Anthropologist Looks at Photography in Juniata County, Pa. Photographica.
1982e Images of the Family: The Symbolic Implications of Animal Photography. Phototherapy, 3[2]:2-7.
1983b The United States View Co. of Richfield, Pa. Studies in Visual Communication 9 [4]:45-64.
1983c An Early Attempt at Studying Human Behavior with a Camera: Franz Boas and The Kwakiutl:1930. In Methodology in Anthropological Film Making. Nico C.R. Bogaart and Henk Ketelaar, Editors. Edition Herodot, Gottingen, Germany, pgs. 25-38.
1984a PostMortem Portraiture in America. History of Photography 8[3]:201-222.
1984b Photographic View Companies: The Camera Leaves the Studio.Pennsylvania Heritage X[4]:26-31.
1984c The Other Worlds of Joe Steinmetz. Studies in Visual Communication 10[4]:61-75.
1985a Festival Dei Popoli 1984: 25th Annual Film Festival. Anthropology Today 1[2]:25-6.
1985b Images of the U.S.A: An Introduction; Interview with Bernd Lohse; Harald Lechenperg - Photojournalist. Studies in Visual Communication 11[ 2].
1985c Francis Cooper, Spruce Hill Photographer. Studies in Visual Communication 11[4]:12-29.
1986a Introduction and Francis Cooper, Spruce Hill Photographer. Reflections on Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania Landscape Photography. Exhibit catalog, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.
1986b The Future of Anthropological Cinema A Modest Polemic. Visual Sociology Review 1[2]:9-13.
1987a Bernd Lohse's Pictures of America, 1937. Framework 1 [1]:515.
1987b L'Uso del Film Ethnografico Nelle Schole Superiori Come Materiale Didattico perL'Insegnamento delle Scienze Umane. [The Use of Ethnographic Film in Secondary Schools as a Teaching Aid in the Human Sciences.] 28th Festival dei Popoli Catalog, Florence, Italy, pgs. 136-141. [Reprinted in Teaching Visual Anthropology. Paolo Chiozzi, editor. Firenze: Editice "Il Sedicesimo" 1989]
1987/8 Portraying The Dead. Omega 19[1]: 1-20.
1988a With Janis Essner. Robert J. Flaherty. Arctic Profiles pages 354-356.
1988b The Ethics of Imagemaking. In New Challenges To Documentary, Alan Rosenthal, Editor. Berkeley: University of California Press.
1988c Francis Cooper - A Turn-of-the-Century Cycling and Photographic Enthuiast. The Wheelman, No. 33: 27-30.
1988d Images of Rural America. History of Photography 12[4]:327-343.
1989a The Emperor and His Clothes. SVA Newsletter 5[1]: 9-11.
1989b The Equilbriums of Paradox: The Pittsburgh Photographs of W. Eugene Smith. Insight 1[4]: 4-10.
1989c Ethnographic Film. Encylopedia of Communication, Erik Barnouw, editor. New York: Oxford University Press.
1989d Robert Gardner und der anthropologische Film. In Ritual von Leben und Tod: Robert Gardner und seine Filme. R.Kapfer. W. Petermann und R. Thoms, Hrsg. Munchen: Trickster Verlag. [Reprinted in a slightly revised form in 1991 as An Anthropological Critique of the Films of Robert Gardner. Journal of Film and Video Vol. 43, No. 4:3-17.]
1990a William Culp Darrah - A Remembrance. The Photo Review, Vol. 12, No. 4.[Reprinted in Shadows and Substance: Essays in Honor of Heinz Henisch. Kathleen Collins, editor.]
1990b The Wheelman and the Snapshooter or, the Industrialization of the Picturesque Shadows and Substance: Essays in Honor of Heinz Henisch. Kathleen Collins, editor
1990c The Belly of the Beast: Eric Michaels and the Anthropology of Visual Communication. In Communication & Tradition: Essays After Eric Michaels, Tom O'Regan, editor. Continuum, [3]2: 53-98. [Reprinted in 1991 in a slightly revised form as Eric Michaels: An Appreciation. Visual Anthropology 4[3-4]:325-344]
1990d With Tom O'Regan. Eric Michaels: A Partial Guide to his Written Work. In Communication & Tradition: Essays After Eric Michaels, Tom O'Regan, editor. Continuum, [3]2: 226-228.
1990e Eye-Witnessing: Humanism, Ethnography and Film. CVA Review [Fall]:12-16.
1991a Photographs, Memory, and Grief. Illness, Crises and Loss, [1]1:1-5.
1991b Sharing The Power - A Multivocal Documentary/Delen in de macht - De meerstemmige documentaire. Perspektief, No. 41: 4-17. [Translated into Finnish as published as Monikeskeinen Dokumentti - Vallan Jakaminen in Valokuvauksen Vuosikirja 1991 [Finnish Photographic Yearbook 1991] Helsinki, pages 48-64]
1992 Introduction. The Media as a Forum for Community Building: Cases from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Hamid Mowlana and Margaret Hardt Frondorf, editors. Washington, D.C.: John Hopkins University. pg.s vii-ix.
1993 Who Can Image Whom? Media & Culture: The Newsletter for the Virginia Center for Media and Culture, [1]2:8-11.
1995b Out of Sync: The Cinema of Tim Asch. Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 11, no. 1:19-37.
1995c The Moral Burden of Authorship in Ethnographic Film. Visual Anthropology Review [11]2:1-6.
1995d Post-Mortem Portraiture in America. In Intimations of Mortality, Stephanie Brown and Stephen Hobson, editors. Devon, UK: Available Light, pgs.48-59.
1996a Recollections of the Flaherty Film Seminar. "The Flaherty: Four Decades in the Cause of Independent Cinema. A special issue of Wideangle, vol. 17, nos. 1-4, Edited by Erik Barnouw and Patricia Zimmerman, pgs. 62-66.
1996b Third Voice Films. In The Documentary: Strangely Compelling, M. Delofski and J. Mills, editors. Media International Australia, No. 82: 12-18.
2001 Retratando os mortos. In Imagem e Memoria: Ensairos em Antropologia Visual, Koury, Mauro, editor. Rio de Janeiro: Garamond, pgs 95-112 (An excerpt from Secure the Shadow, translated into Portuguese).
2002 The Professionalization of Visual Anthropology in the United States, The 1960s and 1970s. Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 17, No. 2:5-12.
2005a Introduction. In Passing: A Book About Death, Todd Herman, editor. San Francisco: The Dancing Tree.
2005b Jean Rouch: Hidden and Revealed. American Anthropologist 107(1):113-115.
2005c The Last Twenty Years of Visual anthropology - A Critical Review. Visual Studies , vol. 20, no. 2, pgs. 159-170. (Translated into Spanish for Chilean Magazine of Visual Anthropology ).
2007 Digital Oak Park: an experiment', Critical Arts , 21:2, 321 - 332
2008a A Future for Ethnographic Film? Journal of Film and Video, 60, 2: 5-14.
2008b Ethnographic Film. The International Encyclopedia of Communication , Vol. IV, edited by Wolfgang Donsbach. Malden, MA: Blackwell, pgs. 1588-1591.
2009 Son los medios interactivos una alternativa a los filmes ethnograficos? Enlace: Rivista Venezolana de informacion, technologia y conocimiento, vol. 6, num. 3, pp. 81-93. Unversidad del Zulia, Venezula.
2011 Co-Authored with Marcus Banks. Introduction, Made To Be Seen: Historical Perspectives on Visual Anthropology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2011 Co-Edited with Matt Durington. Ethnographic Film. Made To Be Seen: Historical Perspectives on Visual Anthropology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
National Anthropological Archive, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. – Visual Anthropology papers
Special Collections, Penn State University, State College, PA – Pennsylvania materials
Pa. State Archives, Harrisburg, PA – Francis Cooper materials
Oak Park Historical Society, Oak Park, IL – Oak Park Stories material